List of Little or No Consequence

10 Football Teams That (Have Been Known To) Wear Shirts Featuring Diagonal Stripes

1. Crystal Palace (home)



2. Guatemala (home)



3. LA Galaxy (home / away (featured))



4. Leicester City (away)



5. Lorient (home)



6. Manchester City (away)



7. Netherlands (away)



8. Peru (home (featured) and away)



9. River Plate (home)



10. Vasco Da Gama (home)

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Tideland

Described by Gilliam as “Alice in Wonderland meets Psycho” – this poetically faithful, low budget adaptation of Mitch Cullin’s novel, is arguable his most disturbing and distinctive film to-date. Bold and original, this painful odyssey within a lonely child’s imagination has a strange awkward beauty that will not be to everyone’s taste. Gilliam’s approach to visual language is radical; he is prepared to take enormous risks while paying attention to the smallest texture and details. When it pays off, as it does in the accurate sense of scale of this tiny female narrator’s inner world - it is a wondrous achievement. Jeliza Rose (Jodelle Ferland) sits inside the topsy-turvy landscape of an upturned bus, conversing with a chorus of disembodied Barbie doll heads. Although this, the first of many dark claustrophobic interiors, may briefly light up with CGI generated firefly fairies, rest assured, this is not Disney. Jeliza’s train wreck of a family swiftly derails any romanticised notions of childhood. After her abusive, bloated, chocoholic mother (Jennifer Tilley), dies of a methadone overdose, Jeliza and her drug addled, aging, rock star father (Jeff Bridges) set off in true fairy tale style to grandma’s house. However, grandmas’ long dead, the house a dilapidated ruin and now after his last hit father rigidly stares at the wall while emitting strange smells. Cast adrift in the wild oceanic beauty of the surrounding Saskatchewan prairies and Pecorini’s ravishing widescreen lensing, Jeliza appears shipwrecked in an Andrew Wyeth painting. Emotionally and physically starving Jeliza encounters a talking squirrel, an eccentric taxidermist in a black beekeeper’s bonnet (Janet McTeer) and the brave sea captain and slayer of the monster shark (Brendan Fletcher). The most authentic testament of a child’s attempt to survive neglect and abuse, and affecting exploration of the consequences of using fantasy as a coping mechanism.

I Would Walk Another 500 Miles

Back again at the history lesson

Photo #1
The Royal Oak was another early pub for me, 16 this time. In here I had the foulest pint I have ever had. Old Tom by Robinson's, a flat lifeless 8% bitter (I think) and certainly a right of passage. I think it took me an hour to drink it!

Photo #2
The door way to the right of Pal Distribution used to lead to the finest club in the world................ in 1994. Dreamers was it's name and I used to love the way you could have a crafty joint in the corner without the been chucked out. Oh and the music was first rate, what a dive though.

Photo #3
No significance to this photo, it just makes me laugh. Do you think they have moved?

I Would Walk 500 Miles

I dropped Wifeys car at the garage this morning and decided to walk home to clear my head. I thought I would take a few photos of my old stomping ground and the town I love.

Photo #1
This shabby door was once the door to Paradise, well the original venue for Ambition; the second best club in Oldham

Photo #2
The name of this shop always made me laugh as a kid

Photo #3
The castle was the first proper pub in town I managed to get served in as a spotty 15 year old. It is, as it says, the best place to see a band in Oldham.

Photo #4
The Union Club is a proper working mens club with fantastic architecture. It was also the venue for my sister-in-laws wedding reception, of which after leaving in a very drunken manner, I asked Girlfriend to become Wifey. She made me ask again in the morning when I had sobered up!
It is now closed down and covered in bird shit.

Stoned

Apparantley Iran have suspended the punishment of death for stoning. So no more Life of Brian emails to the Iranian Embassy anymore. They seemed to be starting to enjoy them too!







Also in the news, two planes collided whilst on the runway at Manchester Airport today. My mate Monkey Boy's Mum and Dad where expecting to fly to Germany before being rear ended by a Boeing 737. It's all go.